Some are just a dazzling golden grassland.
Little Rose is Alice who fell down the rabbit hole.
This grassland is her fairyland world.
She plays and talks with the four doll heads on her fingers, using them to impersonate herself or someone else.
Her neighbors live with witches and Captain Dickens.
She hopes to be a friend of witches, and also likes the captain who takes her to swim in the sea, wants to go with him to catch monster sharks, and wants to make a pair of "Silly kissers" with him.
She was running fast in this silent world by herself, and her laughter and screams were especially harsh.
The poster for the film is two halves. Brown earth above, blue sky below, ROSE sits on an upside-down dead tree.
What the film brings to us is such a world where fantasy and reality are reversed.
But even grotesque fantasies don't feel bizarre, they make reality fragile and suspicious.
Maybe it's because of ROSE. She can make up lies at any time and fantasize about another world.
Behind her lies and fantasies lies a lonely world.
Her father, the man who was obsessed with music and dreams of "Jeland", hated the phone ring and his bloated, nagging wife who didn't understand him.
Her mother, apologetic for not being able to take good care of her, didn't know how to love her and would only suffocate her while eating chocolate.
Her next-door neighbor hated her father who only loved bees, and the bees that stung her mother to death. Because of this, she lost an eye, and she was afraid of losing it, so she made all the things she liked, hoping to get them forever.
Her neighbor's younger brother, an epileptic, sees the grassland as the sea, the broken plastic shed as a submarine, and the passing train as a monster shark. He is the hero and prince in ROSE's mind, but he doesn't like this world. His biggest wish is to detonate the explosives in his hand in exchange for a new start of the world.
The most helpless thing is that she later found out that her father and this neighbor were former lovers, and they were so young and happy in the photos. Looking at the fragments of those gray-white memories, it seems to be able to see how time and life have taken away those love and dreams from them little by little, leaving them only two lonely empty shells.
ROSE is the continuation of their loneliness. She is a child who can only wrap herself in fantasies.
Only she can take us into the lonely deep sea with her eyes that have never faced reality, and see the sea quietly spreading around us.
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